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AGI - Asian Growth Research Institute,KitakyushuThu, 22 Feb 2018 02:30:17 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.25【Conference Presentation】 Vice-President Horioka gave a keynote address at an international conference held in Brunei.http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/08/28/2491/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/08/28/2491/#commentsMon, 28 Aug 2017 00:57:31 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2491Vice-President Horioka gave a keynote address at the International Conference on Business, Economics and Finance held in Brunei.

Paper presented

“Do People Leave Bequests, and If So, Why and Does It Matter?”

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/08/28/2491/feed/0【Conference Presentation】 AGI researchers gave presentations at an international conference held in Singapore.http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/08/05/2488/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/08/05/2488/#commentsFri, 04 Aug 2017 15:00:25 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2488Vice-President Horioka, Research Professor Ramstetter, Research Associate Professor Niimi, and Research Assistant Professor Vu gave presentations at the Singapore Economic Review Conference 2017 held in Singapore.

Singapore Economic Review Conference 2017

Papers presented

Vice-President Horioka
“Do People Leave Bequests, and If So, Why and Does It Matter?”

Research Professor Ramstetter
“Foreign Workers, Foreign Multinationals, and Wages in Malaysia’s Manufacturing Plants after Controlling for Occupation and Sex during the Mid-1990s”

Research Associate Professor Niimi
“You Can’t Take It with You: The Saving Behavior of the Elderly in Japan”

Research Assistant Professor Vu
“Convergence of Public and Private Enterprise Wages in a Transition Economy: Evidence from a Distributional Decomposition in Vietnam, 2002-2014”

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/08/05/2488/feed/0【Conference Presentation】 AGI researchers participated in an international conference held in the United States.http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/06/27/2484/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/06/27/2484/#commentsMon, 26 Jun 2017 15:00:24 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2484Vice-President Horioka gave a keynote address and Research Associate Professor Niimi and Research Assistant Professor Vu gave presentations at the First Meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household.

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/06/27/2484/feed/0【Conference Presentation】 AGI researchers gave presentations at an international conference held in Hong Kong.http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/06/06/2475/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/06/06/2475/#commentsMon, 05 Jun 2017 15:00:48 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2475Vice-President Horioka, Research Associate Professor Niimi, and Research Assistant Professor Vu gave presentations at the 2017 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society held in Hong Kong.

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/06/06/2475/feed/0【Conference Presentation】 Vice-President Horioka and Research Associate Professor Niimi gave presentations at an international conference held in France.http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/05/25/2469/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/05/25/2469/#commentsWed, 24 May 2017 15:00:35 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2469Vice-President Horioka and Research Associate Professor Niimi gave presentations at the 15th International Conference on Pension, Insurance and Savings held in France.

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/05/25/2469/feed/0Vice-President Horioka and Research Associate Professor Niimi gave seminars in the Philippineshttp://en.agi.or.jp/2017/03/11/2458/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/03/11/2458/#commentsFri, 10 Mar 2017 15:00:46 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2458Vice-President Horioka and Research Associate Professor Niimi gave seminars at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines, Diliman.

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2017/03/11/2458/feed/0AGI held an International Workshop on “Aging in Asia” on November 15-16, 2016.http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/11/28/2438/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/11/28/2438/#commentsMon, 28 Nov 2016 02:05:04 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2438AGI held an International Workshop on “Aging in Asia” in Kitakyushu City under the joint sponsorship of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) on November 15-16, 2016.

We invited 15 distinguished scholars from 8 Asian, European, and North American countries including Professor Axel Boersch-Supan of the Max Planck Institute, Professor John Laitner and Professor Edward Norton of the University of Michigan, and Professor Shoshana Grossbard of San Diego State University as well as 11 distinguished scholars from within Japan including Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean of ADBI, and Professor Naohiro Yashiro, a member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy in the first Abe administration, all of whom are experts on such areas as health, long-term care, pensions, inequality, and labor. Altogether about 40 participants took part in this workshop.

Japan has become the first super-aging society in the world, but many Asian countries are also expected to experience a significant aging of their populations over the next few decades. However, most emerging and developing countries in the region are not equipped with adequate systems in such areas as public pensions, long-term care, and health insurance. An urgent task facing all Asian economies is therefore to reform (and in some cases design) their relevant systems to prepare for population aging and the advent of an aging society. At the workshop, we held active discussions for two full days about what economic and social impacts population aging is having or can have on Asian countries, what issues each country is facing along with population aging, and what lessons the emerging and developing economies of Asia can learn from the experience of the developed countries.

The workshop was funded in part by a 3-year Kakenhi grant (JP15H01950) for studying the topic “The Success and Failure of Social Policy in Japan: Lessons for Asia.”

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/11/28/2438/feed/0【Conference Presentation】 AGI researchers gave presentations at an international conference held in Indonesia.http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/11/07/2435/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/11/07/2435/#commentsMon, 07 Nov 2016 02:48:15 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2435Vice-President Horioka, Research Professor Ramstetter, Research Associate Professor Niimi, and Research Assistant Professor Vu gave presentations at the 15th International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association held in Indonesia.

Research Assistant Professor Vu
“Parental Caring Differences and the Vocabulary Development of Vietnamese Pre-school Children: Evidence from Young Lives”

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/11/07/2435/feed/0【Conference Presentation】 Vice-President Horioka and Research Associate Professor Niimi gave presentations in Germany.http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/08/26/2406/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/08/26/2406/#commentsThu, 25 Aug 2016 15:00:38 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2406Vice-President Horioka and Research Associate Professor Niimi gave presentations at the 34th IARIW (International Association for Research in Income and Wealth) General Conference held in Germany.

]]>http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/08/26/2406/feed/0AGI Seminar (September 6 , 2016) Announcementhttp://en.agi.or.jp/2016/08/09/2391/?referral=rss
http://en.agi.or.jp/2016/08/09/2391/#commentsTue, 09 Aug 2016 01:17:40 +0000http://en.agi.or.jp/?p=2391The Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI) invites researchers who work on Asia to present their work at AGI seminars. The participation fee is free for these seminars. The seminars are mainly for researchers, but the general public is also welcome to attend.

Date and Time

Venue

Participation fee

Free

Language

Presentation and Handouts: English

Presenter, Title and Abstract

Presenter: Professor Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
Title: “Financial Development, Household Income and Urban-Rural Inequality: Evidence from Chinese Economy”
Abstract:
This paper empirically investigates the effect of financial development on Chinese households’ incomes particularly within various income groups using the six provincial data, applying the Quantile Regression model. The empirical study demonstrates that the financial development has a positive but non-linear effect on the annual income of any individual from various income groups at different quantiles. The effect is of inverted U or Kuznets effect indicating that increasing at first and then dropping. As for the distribution of the effects on various income groups, the low-income group is under the greatest influence and then follows the high-income group while the middle-income group is under relatively smaller influence. Findings indicate that promoting the balanced financial development would help to ease Chinese residents’ income gap.